In June of 1968 Sheila Ostrander, a Canadian,
and Lynn Schroeder, an American, were invited to attend an
international
conference on ESP in Moscow. The invitation was from one of the most
fervent
missionaries of Soviet psi research, Edward Naumov, then 36. A few
years earlier, when overt interest in such subjects could easily result
in a long holiday in Siberia, such a conference would have been
impossible.
Then suddenly, in the mid-sixties, the doors of prohibition in Russia,
under the Troika rulership, clanged open. Ostrander and Schroeder,
encouraged
but still doubting the turn of events, started writing to Soviet
scientists
and researchers. For three years, the letters and packages describing
Soviet
psi research poured in, culminating in Naumov's invitation to come and
see for yourself.

They did, also visiting Bulgaria, but even before the
conference had ended the suppression returned. The conference was
closed
down and Ostrander and Schroeder had to take refuge in Prague. Once
again
they were one step ahead of a Soviet crackdown, getting out of Prague
only
days before the Soviet tanks rolled in. During that brief lapse in
Soviet
repression came an epic book that opened the eyes of the world to the
astounding
breakthroughs in psychic research in the communist countries. That
book,
Psychic
Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, published in 1971, became
an instant underground hit in New Age circles, and even though it never
achieved best-seller status in the mainstream readership, it
nevertheless
has now become something of a classic.

Up to that point, all we had to go on was some very tentative
research by Dr. Rhine at Duke University in the fifties. While some of
Rhine's conclusions were positive and dramatic, the effect was blunted
because the research results were couched in cautious, dry statistical
terms, and consequently it was difficult to appreciate the real impact.
But the publication of Psychic Discoveries made it all very real. The
future
of the human race became fantastic to contemplate, and at the same time
very chilling. The authors suggested that while these discoveries could
lead to a Utopia if properly utilized, they could also lead to a hell
on
earth if abused.

The authors have become world authorities on these subjects
and are in great demand. Atlantis Rising was fortunate to have the
opportunity
to interview them at John White's 1997 UFO conference in New Haven,
Connecticut.
With publication of their new book by Marlowe & Company in New York
(paperback), the pair is back in the public eye now. Basically an
update
of the original, the new volume bears the shortened title Psychic
Discoveries.
Publication of the new edition was primarily motivated by the flow of
formerly
top-secret information coming out of the Soviet Union since the end of
the Cold War. The new book contains an abridged version of the old
classic,
and then a second part entitled Psychic Discoveries The Iron Curtain
Lifted.

Far from idle since 1971, the authors published Supermemory
(New York, Carroll and Graf) in 1991. This book, which evolved out
of contacts and interests developed while researching the original
Psychic
Discoveries, bids to become a classic in its own right.

The revelations in all three books are nothing short of
sensational, yet for over 25 years, the press and the public have
barely
noticed. Echoing the pattern found with the UFO phenomenon, some
believe
the situation may suggest a world cover-up. In fact, the authors told
us
that they have now recognized that UFO secrets and psi secrets seem
inextricably linked. Uri Geller, after all, claimed to have obtained
his powers from extraterrestrial sources. The new book includes a
foreword
by Geller in which he marvels that the press has taken little notice.
He
mentions a press conference in 1977 at which Stansfield Turner revealed
that the CIA had a parapsychology program in place, and had found
a man who could see through walls (Pat Price). The revelation created
not even a ripple in the media!

Yet while the revelations in Psychic Discoveries did not
get wide publicity, they were nevertheless revolutionary. The impact on
society has yet to be fully appreciated. The discoveries of an obscure
electrical repairman from the Black Sea city of Krasnodar were first
revealed
to the West in Psychic Discoveries. In classic Ostrander-Schroeder
style,
the drama surrounding the experimentation of Semyon Kirlian and
his wife Valentina is brought to life. It was in this chapter where the
terms energy body and bioplasmic body were first used, and the idea of
the aura was first put forth. One of the most significant results was a
new understanding of the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture.
A Russian surgeon, Dr. Mikhail Gaikin, showed the colored lights
erupting
from the body and appearing in the Kirlian photographs were actually
coming
from the seven hundred acupuncture points.

Before the publication of Psychic Discoveries, there had
been several books written about the unique and strange dimensions of
the
Great Pyramid of Giza, speculating about their significance. But thanks
to their side trip to Prague, Ostrander and Schroeder were the first
to tell the world about pyramid power. It was there that they were
introduced to Karel Drbal, a Czech radio and television engineer
who had discovered that small pyramids of the same relative dimensions
as the Great Pyramid could sharpen razor blades! The pyramidal shape
apparently
focuses cosmic energy when precisely aligned on the north-south axis,
which
can renew the crystalline structure of good-quality steel.

MIND WARS AND SOCIAL CONTROL
Without exception, all of the Soviet researchers interviewed
hoped that these discoveries would be used only for good, but clearly
recognized
that many of them offered potential in intelligence and
counter-intelligence,
and that some could be used to make very destructive weapons and so did
the CIA. Although we now know that U.S. intelligence agencies have been
conducting clandestine, black-funded psychic experimentation for many
years,
there is considerable evidence that many of the top-secret government
psi
programs were triggered by Psychic Discoveries. Extensive U.S. programs
to monitor the Soviet research started up about that time. The authors
were invited to speak to the new Congressional Clearinghouse of the
Future,
and parts of the book were read into the Congressional Record by
Congressman
Al Gore, who later became the chairman of the committee, and who has
maintained
a high degree of interest in psychic matters. Apparently during the
Cold
War, both sides were in a no-holds-barred race to perfect psi weapons
but, just as with space programs, they may now be cooperating.

From the original version of the book, the world first
learned of an astonishing Soviet development the ability to control
behavior and consciousness telepathically! In the chapter, entitled
The Telepathic Knockout, the authors reported on experimentation
dating from 1924 in which Soviet scientists successfully placed
subjects
in hypnotic trances and awakened them telepathically across thousands
of
miles. Once the connection was established, the subject's behavior
could
be manipulated by suggestion, just as in face-to-face. Typically, they
can carry on conscious conversation and activity while in the trance.
In
the new book we learn that the CIA has picked up this ball and run with
it.

But it was from the Czechoslovakians at the conference
that the authors learned of a discovery that promises to ultimately
make
twentieth Century explosive weaponry seem as primitive as the horse and
buggy the psychotronic generator. And while in Prague they
met the inventor, Robert Pavilita, a design director for a large
Czech textile plant. In a documentary film produced by a major Czech
studio,
the authors saw small, strange-looking metal objects that appeared to
be
designed by Picasso, arrayed on a table. They had no moving parts. In
the
film, Pavlita explained that the secret was in the form. The generators
accumulate human energy, he said. Then they focus this energy to carry
out various types of work. Pavlita and his daughter Janna charged the
generators
by gazing at them in a staring pattern. Once charged, they turned
rotors,
attracted nonmetallic particles, caused seedlings to grow larger
plants,
and purified polluted water. This human, psychic energy has had many
names
since ancient times, variously referred to as prana, chi, vital energy,
animal magnetism, odic force, etheric force, orgone (Reich), and now
bioplasmic
and psychotronic energy. At Pavlita's home in Prague, the authors
handled
the devices and saw personal demonstrations by the inventor himself.
But
what happens when a psychotronic generator is pointed at a human?
Pavlita's
daughter volunteered to be a guinea pig. She became dizzy and lost her
spatial orientation. The devices can also kill flies instantly.

In the new edition we learn that former KGB Major General
Kalugin started talking in 1990. He claimed that Yuri Andropov
gave orders to move full speed ahead with psychic warfare in the early
70s, and obtained funding of 500 million rubles. The Soviets then
developed
sophisticated Pavlita-type generators. Dr. Nikolai Khokhlov, a Russian
CIA operative, uncovered over 20 heavily guarded, well-funded
laboratories
working on psychotronic devices for military use in the 70s. Some of
this
effort may have been cooperative with the U.S.

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
At least one U.S. psi program that we know of pre-dated
the publication of Psychic Discoveries. In Supermemory, the authors
reveal details of the CIA EDOM program. EDOM means Electronic
Dissolution
of Memory, and apparently this technique was perfected years ago. The
CIA can zap long-term memory and turn someone into an amnesiac zombie
by
blocking the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, and by electronically
interfering with the bioplasmic body. Apparently, they routinely employ
this technique to neutralize former top-secret operatives, just as in
the
movie Total Recall. This capability was developed under the MK-ULTRA
program when they performed bizarre memory experiments on mental
inmates,
prisoners, and research volunteers in the 60s, before the program was
halted
by Congress in 1976.

Perhaps the most bizarre development in memory control
was inspired by the multiple personality disorder. Also in Supermemory,
we learn that the CIA can artificially seed multiple personalities in
the same body, each with its own memory bank not accessible to the
others. Gil Jensen, an Oakland, California, CIA doctor, claimed
that he created a personality named Arlene Grant in the body of famous
super-model Candy Jones in the 50s and 60s using hypnosis and
memory-altering
drugs. Grant was trained as a super-spy and given a complete memory
history
and top-secret information which Jones knew nothing about. Whenever
Jones
went on celebrity trips, Grant was summoned on the telephone through a
series of electronic sounds, and carried out her spy missions. The
primary
personality can never reveal information from the secondary memory
bank,
even under torture, and therefore makes the perfect spy. This program
is
now called Radio-Hypnotic Intra-Cerebral Control and is apparently
based on Soviet discoveries related to electromagnetic manipulation
of the bioplasmic body.

UFO SECRETS REVEALED
By far the most sensational revelations coming out of
the post-Cold War Soviet Union are concerned with UFOs and the moon.
In the new edition we learn that information from now-opened KGB files
tells of widespread UFO sightings reported to the Soviet military in
the
years following the incredible Voronezh public landings in September
1989, which made headlines all over the world. Hundreds of adults
and children saw the spacecraft landings and giant aliens and small
robots
moving freely about downtown Zavodsk Square in broad daylight.
Thousands
more saw giant discs hovering over the city's nuclear power plant.
According to the KGB files, in March of the following year, over 100
military
UFO observations were reported to the Air Defense Forces, and a 300
foot disc hovering over the headquarters of the Soviet Air Defense
Command
was reported in April. Also in the KGB files, according to the
Hungarian
Minister of Defense, George Keleti, a former colonel in the army, UFOs
swarmed over Hungary at the same time as the Voronezh landings, and
alien craft landed at military air bases all across the country. Keleti
claimed that the four-foot robots actually attempted to climb into
Hungarian MIGS and they repelled guards with ray guns! Then the ten
foot humanoids became invisible when fired upon with machine guns.
According to Psychic Discoveries, an avalanche of formerly
concealed sightings, landings, close encounters, abductions and more
have
seeped out to the press and to newly formed UFO groups in Russia since
1990.

But the secrets eking out of the Soviet space programs
are even more exciting. Soviet Air Force Colonel Marina Popovich
showed photos of a fifteen-mile-long object flying near the Martian
moon Phobos, taken by the Soviet probe Phobos-2, at a conference in
San Francisco in 1989. Russia's Luna 9 moon probe, which landed
in the Ocean of Storms on February 4, 1966, took some spectacular
3D photos over the Sea of Tranquility, which showed a group of spires
that appeared to be obelisk-shaped, and were obviously artificial
structures.
Soviet space engineer Dr. Alexander Abramov subjected the photos to a
complex
mathematical analysis and concluded that they were archaeological
ruins.
Furthermore, he told the authors that the obelisks on the moon were
arranged
in exactly the same pattern as the pyramids of Giza, when placed
on an abaka, an ancient Egyptian grid of 49 squares (see
illustrations).
Then Dr. S. Ivanov, one of Russia's most eminent scientists, published
an analysis in the Soviet magazine Technology for Youth, claiming that
the monuments were arranged according to definite geometric laws, and
were
evidently artificial structures of alien origin.

U.S. photos taken by Orbiter 2 on November 20,
1966 tended to confirm the Soviet findings. Dr. Ivan T. Sanderson,
science editor of Argosy magazine, analyzed these photos and claimed
that
the tallest structure was about 15 stories high, and the smallest about
the size of a fir tree. The authors later found out that NASA had
classified
hundreds of lunar photos and still refuses to release them.

We conclude with a succinct and eloquent summation of
the situation by former astronaut Dr. Brian O'Leary, as quoted in
Psychic Discoveries, The cosmic Watergate of UFO, alien, mind-control,
genetic engineering, free-energy, antigravity propulsion, and other
secrets
will make Watergate and Irangate appear to be kindergarten
exercises. But,
the truth will and must be known eventually.